the Year and The All American Rejects", concluding that "TRJA may lack innovation, but push all the right buttons in terms of merging popular rock genres." Corey Apar from AllMusic praised the single "Face Down" as a highlight and commended both "Cat and Mouse" and "Your Guardian Angel" for breaking up the "steadfast urgency" throughout the album, but felt the overall sound was too reminiscent of contemporaries like Jimmy Eat World and The Used, concluding that "it's all not quite enough to wash out the generic taste left in one's mouth by the end. The band may not be faking anything, but even earnestness isn't always enough." IGNs Chad Grischow said that there was "more promise than substance on their debut", giving praise to Ronnie Winter's vocal performance and the tracks for containing "a powerful rock punch with hard-crashing guitar riffs and driving beats supporting solid emo hooks", but said that it "fits a little too comfortably among the hundreds of other pop-punk and emo releases of the summer. It is certainly not the worst of them, but it is hardly the best either." He concluded that "in the overcrowded state of the genre their debut fails to make a splash." Commercial performance The album debuted at number 25 on the Billboard 200 and moved 25,000 copies in its first week. By August 2006, the album had sold over 100,000 copies, and has sold 852,000 copies as of August 2008. It was eventually certified Platinum in May 2016. Track listing Tracks 1, 4, 6, 10, 11, 12 and 14 originally appear on The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. Tracks 1 and 11 have alternate names. In Fates Hands alternate name is Ass Shaker. Your Guardian Angel alternate name is The Acoustic Song. DVD Making the Album – Behind the Scenes "Face Down" (music video) "False Pretense" (music video) Behind the Scenes – "False Pretense" On the Road with RJA Personnel Credits adapted from the liner notes of Don't You Fake It. The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Ronnie Winter – lead vocals, acoustic guitar, piano Elias Reidy – lead guitar, backing vocals Duke Kitchens – rhythm guitar Joey Westwood – bass guitar Jon Wilkes – drums, percussion Additional musicians Randy Winter – drums, sequencers on "In Fate's Hands" and "Justify" Dan Korneff – strings Production David Bendeth – producer, mixing Isaiah Abolin – assistant engineer Anthony Fontana – assistant engineer Ted Young – assistant